The Home op Liberty.—Desehamps, the comedian, visited St Petersburg once to play an engagement. He arrived in midwinter. " Holy Moses ! " he ejaculated, " but it is cold I " Five minutes later he was bofore a magistrate. t( What have I done P Of what crime am I accused P " " You have been guilty of seditious utterances." "Seditious utterances ?" " Aye ! Did you not a few moments ago advance the proposition that here, in the capital of His Imperial Majesty, it was freezing cold ? " "I did, and it is. I have chilblains, even." " Prisoner, do not make matters worse. This time I will overlook your offence, but do not repeat it. Understand for the future that it is not cold —that it has no business to be cold in Kussia." Thereafter, though the Neva was frozen solid, Deschamps did not fail to parade the streets in nankeen pantaloons. When ho returned to France, after narrating this incident, he added : " I played dominoes six years in one cafe at St. Petersburgh with a set that hadn't any double-six, and I never dared to ask for the missing domino."—Paris paper.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2510, 22 January 1877, Page 2
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185Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2510, 22 January 1877, Page 2
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